self renewal
explorations in how individuals and institutions can adapt, evolve, and renew their sense of vitality when they become stagnant.
self renewal
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot
... See moreDavid Whyte • David Whyte
Your dream projects might be dreams because they’re not formed in dialog with the world, not because they’re good ideas
Sasha Chapin • Tweet
I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
If we don’t know how to mourn and rebuild, we are incentivized to keep the storms of our lives raging indefinitely.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Staying locked in an eternal battle against the world is a good way to distract ourselves from the incredible vulnerability of existing within it.
Heidi Priebe • Tweet
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin
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